A. A journalist.B. A farmer.C. A painter.

18. How did Grandma Moses make a living at age twelve?

A. By working as a hired girl.

B. By drawing colorful scenes.

C. By selling clothing.

19. What do we know about Thomas S. Moses?

A. He met his wife in Virginia. B. He was born in New York.

C. He was a farm worker.

20. When did Grandma Moses have her first exhibition in New York?

A. In 1887.B. In 1905.C. In 1940.

第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

第一节(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡该项涂黑。

A

Two-year-old Harley was asleep with her younger sister in their home in Eden, North Carolina. While their parents were outside welcoming their older sister home from school, the wires in the family’s laundry room caught fire and before anyone knew what was happening, the bedroom next door was consumed in flames.

Harley’s father was able to rescue his two youngest daughters and save their lives, but Harley was severelyburned on 80 percent of her body and her parents were told that she was likely to pass away.Over the next several months, Harley would put up with surgery after surgery and remain hooked up to a ventilator(呼吸机)at the hospital. When she was finally released to go home, Harley had no idea that the toughest battle had not even begun yet.

When Harley started school just a few years later, she realized for the first time how cruel her peers could be. Bullied for her appearance and called hateful names, she began to consider ending her life while only in Grade 8. When her friends were getting their first boyfriends and going on their first dates, she was sitting at home wondering if she should end her life.

But in 2013, something changed. It was not something on the outside but something inside Harley. She made the conscious decision to become more like the carefree, laughing, joyous little girl that she had not seen since that night in 1997. So for the first time in her life, she put on a blue dress and walked outside into the light of day throwing caution to the wind and daring anyone to try to rain on her parade.

21. What was the toughest battle for Harley?

A. Her sister’s death.

B. Her peers’ discrimination.

C. Surgery after surgery.

D. Her emotion of jealousy.

22. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. It took Harley about sixteen years to change her attitude to life.

B. Harley had tried to end her life many times.

C. Harley liked blue dresses and rainy days.

D. In 2013, Harley changed something inside and outside.

23. What can be a suitable title?

A. Transforming a sad girl into a joyous girl

B. How to overcome difficulty

C. A blue dress on rainy days

D. A girl rose from the dark

B

TIME edited a list of the top 10 movies in the USA in 2016. As it’s too extensive a list to go through, introduce four of them as follows. Yomay add a movie yolike to your plan.

●TOWER (documentary)

Nearly fifty years ago, a gunman rode the elevator to the twenty-seventh floor of the University of Texas Tower and opened fire, killing 16 people. Combining footage with animation (cartoon), TOWER reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’sinitial mass school shooting. The worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

Director: Keith Maitland. Release Time: March 13, 2016. Duration: 96m.

●MOONLIGHT (drama)

A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight, records the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood. He struggled to find his place in the world while he was growing up in a tough neighborhood of Miami.